Project Explorer - Common Tasks

Creating New Projects

Adding Project Items to Projects

Opening Projects

Renaming Projects, Project Items and Logs

Deleting Project Items and Logs

Organizing Project Items Into Folders

Saving Changes Made to Projects and Project Items

Importing Logs

Viewing and Editing Project Items

Expanding or Collapsing Structure Trees

To create a new project:

• Right-click anywhere within the Project Explorer panel and select New Project from the context menu.

To add a new project item, follow the instructions below:

• Right-click the project or project item that can have child items in the Project Explorer.

• Select Create New Item from the context menu. The item name depends on the item you add.

To add an existing project item, follow the steps below:

• Select the project or project item that can have child items in the Project Explorer.

• Right-click the node and select Add Existing Item from the context menu. The item name depends on the item you add.

To open an existing project:

• Right-click within the Project Explorer panel and select Open from the context menu.

To rename a node in the Project Explorer, do any of the following:

• Right-click the selected node and choose Rename from the context menu.

• Select the needed node and press F2.

To remove unnecessary project items or project logs from the project structure, right-click the needed project item or log and select Remove from the ensuing context menu.

To remove all the project logs, right-click the Project_Name Logs folder in the Project Explorer and select Clear Log Files from the context menu.

To organize project items into folders, act in the following way:

• Right-click the project node and choose Create Folder from the context menu to create a new custom folder.

• Drag project items to the created folder.

For more information on creating logical folders for organizing projects and project items, see Organizing Items Into Folders.

To save the changes you have made to the current project, right-click it and select Save from the context menu.

To save the selected node to a new location on the disk, right-click the needed node and select Save Current As from the context menu.

To import an existing test log to the project log:

• Right-click the Project_Name Logs folder and choose Add Existing Log File from the context menu.

To view or edit a project item, do any of the following:

• Double-click the project item node in the Project Explorer panel to open the item in the appropriate editor.

• Right-click the project item node in the Project Explorer panel and select Edit from the context menu.

To view the selected log’s content, right-click the log node and select Open from the context menu.

To expand all the tree structures displayed in the Project Explorer panel, right-click any node in the structure tree and select Expand All from the context menu.

To collapse all the tree structures displayed in the Project Explorer panel, right-click any node in the structure tree and select Collapse All from the context menu.